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Hi there,
I normally don't borge into a thread like this since I am not an active user of mod_perl.
But have you noticed how cheap memory is these days? You can set up a dual 64 bit processers
server with 4Gig bytes of memory and set up 10 VM on the same machine. It is extremely fast
and efficient, and much easy to manage.
All these VM virtualization technology is driving the cost of ownership down tremendously.
And then each application runs faster because each has its own VM and a fix partition of memory.
Why make software scalable while you can scale using cheap hardware and virtualization? Then
you can deploy simply and primitive systems built by outsourced global development centers
on these new hardware platforms.
The playground may be changing very rapidly for developing scalable software. I also used
`curl -I` to look at what webserver amazon is running on. It's neither IIS nor Apache because
the response didn't provide any specific server ID.
They may be tomcat. Can someone tell what system components are they using? Oh well.
- Clement
-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Vanasco <modperl-list@2xlp.com>
>Sent: Feb 22, 2008 5:59 PM
>To: modperl <modperl@perl.apache.org>
>Subject: Amazon
>
>I've heard from a few reputable sources that Amazon is looking to
>drop mod_perl, and push into another technology ( which I've also
>head is likely to be Java ).
>
>They have a HUGE deployment on mp, and have been my prime "Um, not
>enterprise? Hello, AMAZON." repsonse.
>
>I know that people 'in the know' can't comment on record... however
>I'm wondering if anyone with second-hand intel has heard , and can
>share :
>
> a- what the bottleneck / scaling issues were
> b- were these due to apache/mod_perl, or because of the framework
>implementation... and this is just an opportunity to switch
>technologies while they switch frameworks ( ie, is MP to blame, or
>Template Toolkit... and MP is taking a fall since its going to be a
>PITA to ditch TT )
> c- what the hell the financial projections were on doing this. are
>they looking to save on hardware scaling, developer scaling, is the
>codebase just unmanageable? this would be a costly transition
>
>
>
>
>// Jonathan Vanasco
>
>w. http://findmeon.com/user/jvanasco
>e. jonathan@findmeon.com
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